About Us:

SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Reaching approximately 75 million people each month (as of Sept. 2021) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset's mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Ranked on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ lists of fastest growing companies in 2021, SmartAsset closed a $110 million Series D round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. SmartAsset was also named to Y Combinator's list of Top 100 Companies of all time and Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers in 2020.

SmartAsset has been featured in hundreds of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, The New York Times, CNBC, FOX Business, The Washington Post, U.S. News World Report, TIME, Reuters, Businessweek and Barron’s.  

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and vision to several scrum teams to support the evolution of our entire platform
• Lead technology decisions for multiple development teams in a way that orchestrates technical efficiencies across the organization
• Partner with principal engineers in providing long term plans and short term iteration guidance for the delivery of continuous system improvements
• Collaboratively apply your mastery of programming and distributed systems to the betterment of our development practices, stable delivery and design of systems
• Provide mentorship and guide design of new products, APIs, and services
• Identify the common technical challenges teams face and provide support and guidance for solving them
• Hold accountability for the evolution, application and proliferation of engineering best practices

Required Skills and Experience:

• 15+ years experience in a highly technical role
• 7+ years demonstrating proficiency guiding team-wide adoption of technical decisions
• Demonstrated mastery in at least one scripting language and a compiled/statically typed language
• Proficient in distributed systems and a variety of modern web & non-web technologies
• Leadership in promoting best practices and high quality code across an organization
• Capability of designing and implementing distributed and fault-tolerant systems at high scale
• Demonstrated skill in thoughtfully planning, prioritizing and realizing technical improvements
• Demonstrated expertise of communicating technical improvements
• Ability of collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You thrive in learning from colleagues and mentoring others

Available Benefits and Perks:

• All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere in the US.
• Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
• Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available 
• FSA: Medical and Dependant Care 
• 401K - 3% match with immediate vesting
• Equity packages for each role
• Time Off:  PTO, 3 Month Paid Parental Leave,  Secondary Caregiver Leave
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Pet Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Home Office Stipend
• Health and Wellness Stipend
• Monthly Food Delivery Stipend

SmartAsset is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].